DT Seguras Crafts: Mother’s Day Card

  

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

I wanted to make a special card for my mom. So I started by choosing a nice sketch:

And work my way from there, then I went to choose a colors palette:

I really enjoy color palette challenges because they push me to think outside the box. And I knew these colors are nicely represented by the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts printed papers (coming soon, stay posted) and who doesn’t love Star Wars. I choose the page with the most colors in this palette and which would go with my mom’s personality. She is very active and has a very strong personality, so very well represented by the contrast of the blue-peach pink in the papers I chose. My mom actually loves purple and mauve, but I think this contrast is more her: 

I used the rectangle die from made-to-surprise interactive die set available at Seguras Crafts to die cut the printed paper layer. For the little dove tail I used a die from a Tonics set.

I used the Mothers love 6x8 stamp set for the cute little girl and mom image and the “I’ll always be your baby” sentiment for the tag. After I glued everything, I chose the embellishments to go with the color scheme and added rhinestones in Ocean Bliss to make the card more cheerful. I even added more rhinestones to the Prima rhinestone stickers to tie everything together.

For the inside, I chose the “Happy Mothers Day” sentiment from Seguras Crafts and stamped it on Petal Whisper Pink pearlescent cardstock. I later used a rectangular die to give it some texture and glued to the card base:

I made a little video of my process:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

cheerful sketches challenge: mei-2025

colorful options: may-2025

avenue 613: may-2025-anything-goes-w-optional-twis

kimsconjurerofdreams: conjurer-of-dreams-challenge-7-anything

crafting a cut above: may-anything-goes-with-die-cut

house mouse-challenge: 440-hmfmc-anything-goes-option-of-add

neglected stuff: neglected-stuff-may-2025-challenge

Prima flower packages from before the pandemic

a perfect time to craft: open-challenge

beautiful blossoms challenge: beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything

diana m larson: dlart-thankful-thursday-challenge-371

girlz creative fun art of scrap: challenge-9

girlz rebel challenge: challenge-40-alles-mag-met-een-plaatje

DT Seguras Crafts: Fiesta Bookmarks for Teacher’s Appreciation Week

 

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

This time I decided to make bookmarks for my school teachers for their appreciation week. I used sentiments from the  “Believe In Yourself” and another soon-to-be-released stamp, Emotions and Opposite. These sentiments were perfect for affirmations to the wonderful job teachers do.

I really enjoyed making these no-two of the same bookmarks and ended up making 40 of them. To appreciate all the teachers and staff of kids’ school and my day job.

I also added Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones In And Opal Glow and Ocean Bliss to add some shine. These rhinestones are so glossy that are perfect for this effect even with the busy fiesta patter of the Crafty Chica’s papers or the neon bright solid papers.

I had some paper frills from Doodle Bug Design, which were perfect for stamping the sentiments and to add more sass to the bookmark. The same with old unknown source of rhinestone ribbon in red, which I trimmed to the wide and length I needed.

I general, I love the bright colors of Fiesta and I’m very glad that San Antonio’s fiesta fell the same week than teacher’s appreciation. Some teachers were even joking that they could use the bookmarks as fiesta medals 😁

Here are some of the bookmarks I did. I missed some of them from the pictures:

For this post I tried to make a little video of my process. I really tried to bring the teachers and staff some happy thoughts by using very bright colors and fiesta-themed patters . Here we go:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

a perfect time to craft: open-challenge

alessandras angels: allys-angels-93-anything-goes-theme-92

beautiful blossoms challenge: beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything

crafters cafe blog challenge: 318-april-anything-goes-optional

creations in pink1 challenge: challenge-80-anything-goes-in-mainly pink

do-all kreatives: 101-atg-opt-flowers

girlz creative fun art of scrap: challenge-9

girlz rebel challenge: challenge-39-alles-mag-met-bloemen

love to craft challenge blog: ltccb-86-anything-goes

paper-rocks-scissors: may-4-challenge

the flower challenge: the-flower-challenge-102-add-spots-or strippes

Strippes

DT Seguras Crafts: Believe Easter Card

 

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

This time I decided to make an easter’s card for someone very special for my family. I loved how the  “Believe In Yourself” stamp is versatile that I can even use it for a religious card. I just focused on the “Believe” part. I rummaged through my craft stash and found this old but unused stepper card die from Tattered Lace. Just perfect. I also used some ready made cards and tricked it into fitting the die.

I used the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts (coming soon, stay posted) was just what I needed for the background. Focusing on the sentiment it helps to imaging that beliefs are cosmic in nature and this paper brings so much hope in life, nature, and our own religious believes. 

I was so surprised that inside the tattered lace die set, the Easter Lilies die was included and remembered that I had the perfect cross (CMTH) available in my never ending crafting stash. 

I also used Seguras high quality cardstocks (I’m still working on the affiliated links, until then, I will just add direct links to the products that I use) for diecutting the cross and stamping the sentiment. I used Anthracyte and Crystal vision purple. I really love the nice pearlescent shimmer of this cardstocks. You can see it best on the cross: 

I really enjoyed this project and hope it does bring some happiness and love to our dear friends starting a new beginning in a new city, but close to their family. We really miss them and wanted to express it in our card:

For this post I wanted to try to make a little video of my process. I am terrible at expressing with words my feelings but hopefully my work speaks for my feelings. Here we go:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

aaacolourfulchallenge: colourboard

kimsconjurerofdreams: conjurer-of-dreams-challenge-7-anything

daisychainchallenge: challenge-95-not-square

girlzrebelchallenge: challenge-39-alles-mag-met-bloemen 

Letscreatechallenges: challenge-218-ag-add-flowers

papercraft-challenges: challenge-117-easter-elegance

creativecrafterschallenge: challenge-87

DT Seguras Crafts: Believe in Yourself Shaker Tag for my Board

  

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

As I commented before, I started revamping my school board. I started with my first post for Seguras Crafts, here. Now the next steps are a series of reaffirmation tags to hang from the tree.

The  “Believe In Yourself” stamp is perfect for these tags. So I started with the “Believe in yourself” sentiment, which I had to kind of cramp in the tag space (CTMH) I choose for this purpose:

I started by choosing the background paper and decided that the Cloud of Hope from Seguras Crafts (coming soon, stay posted) was perfect. 

It gives such a dreaming in the clouds vibe. See the many choices (spoilers alert) included in the package:

Though choice. I went for the one that looks like rising clouds. The colors spoke to me. The blue signifying calm. And the little purple meaning wisdom and creativity. Very motivating for my little tag. I used the CTMH circle shaker. I cut 5 pieces of the white window to give it depth. And cut the starts with the Seguras high quality cardstocks (I’m still working on the affiliated links, until then, I will just add direct links to the products that I use). I used Crystal vision purple  and Petal Whisper Pink.

Then I used some StazOn inks in cloudy grey and blue hawii, also the HeroArts red ink (I don’t know the name of this color) to stamp the sentiment. The red shows nicely in the almost overlapping words:

To make the “in” shine more I added a Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones in And Opal Glow. Then I glue 4 pieces of the window diecuts to the shaker base (I glued a tag diecut from Sizzix) to be able to hang my shaker tag. I glued a piece of a Page-protector to the 5th window diecut piece to finish the window. I added the starts diecuts (they shine beautifully) and Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones In Aurora Gleam (Coming Soon) to add more shine. Finally I glued the window to the shaker part and added some string.

And the final result so far:

Kids are loving it. They like the colors and the shaker parts… For the next tags, stay connected and follow me.

I hope you enjoyed this fun ongoing project and join me in checking Seguras Crafts (and facebook page) and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

Keep checking my posts in the following weeks for more inspiring work,

Love

Vicky Tovar

I’m also joining these fun challenges:

avenue613: april-2025-anything-goes-w-optional

SPLASH OF COLOR

lilpatchofcraftyfriends: 251-dr-digis-house-of-stamps

stampingsensations: april-challenge

Birds, Animals, Flowers and Nature

along with Anything Goes

welove2create: challenge-4-craft-card-making

As always, the theme this month is

Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes

lovethoseprettypapers: love-those-pretty-papers-april-2025

SPRINGTIME

polkadoodle: challenge-5-wk-2-anything-goes-card

theoutlawzchallenges-saturday: the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free

DT Seguras Crafts: Believe in Yourself Mixed Media Canvas

 

Dear scrappers,

As promised my second design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

I started this canvas during a painting lesson by a friend of a friend of mine. It was supposed to be just a collage with simple painting on it:

But when I saw the  “Believe In Yourself” stamp, I couldn’t  help it and had to stop the painting and do stamping and mixed media instead. This stamp is perfect. The little messages are so inspiring and perfect for Mother’s day gift or for a nice card of encouragement.

I started by painting the background using turquoise and dark blue acrylic paint, the I added the pieces of paper with paper glue following roughly the wings outline.

Then I wanted to use the black and dark blue inks to stamp the “Believe in Yourself” sentiment, with the bad luck that I didn’t notice that my old black (CTMH) inkpad was damaged and falling apart. As you can see in the picture in the middle, the stamping was totally irregular even using books as support for the stamps… well what to do… I decided to fill in the words with some enamel accents by Rangers. I really liked this raised and shinny outcome. For the “in” sentiment I used the very light blue almost white nuvo drops. I also stamped around the hearts and starts:

For the next steps, I used Multi Medium Matte (Rangers) to seal the collage papers, and applied a layer of clear gesso (LiquiTex) to add some grip for the next layers. I wasn’t very happy with the light color of the nuvo drops, so inked them a little bit:

I wasn’t totally happy with my previous stamping job and still wanted to add the rest of the sentiments, which are a lot smaller, so I ended up stamping them on white tissue paper using black StazOn ink and add the cut strips with ModPodge:

 

I added color to the stamped harts using Deco Glitter marker and outlined the collage with a metallic acrylic marker. 

I still wanted to add more layers, so I sprayed white Dylusions ink, dried and sprayed randomly blueish Tattered Angels ink for added shimmer. It is hard to capture both effects with the camera: 

It wasn’t still shimmering enough, thus I felt inspired tHe Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones In Aurora Gleam (Coming Soon) And Ocean Bliss and added them using glossy accents to the stamped starts, which were becoming almost invisible after the many layers:

I love love the shine in this canvas and I am sure that the person for whom (secret) I made it will feel inspired and her spirit lifted by this angels wings telling her so many loving and uplifting words of so much need self love.

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

Keep checking my posts in the following weeks for more inspiring work,

Love

Vicky Tovar

I’m also joining these fun challenges:

simplyellibelle: ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-april

wordartwednesday: anything-goes-weeks-692-693

girlzrebelchallenge: challenge-38-gebruik-glitter-use

lovetoscrapchallengeblog:.oltscb-172-anything-goes-ltscb-171

girlzcreativefunartofscrap: challenge-8

mixitupchallenge: miucb-76-anything-goes-optional-layers

pathofpositivitychallenge: spotch-129-anything-goes-positive-with-opt

ANYTHING GOES POSITIVE WITH THE OPT. TWIST OF 

EMBRACING THE UNEXPECTED: 

MAKE A CREATIVE PROJECT YOU WOULDN’T NORMALLY MAKE

Although I have done mixed media projects in the past, this is my first time using more words of affirmation for a gift.